The cotton plant derived a large proportion of N nutrition from the soil organic pool (up to 70%) which is composed of N sourced from previous fertiliser application and the soil N pool that has built up over the mill

If Australia is to maintain its reputation as a consistent supplier of high quality cotton it will need to ensure that the entire cotton pipeline from growing to ginning conforms to industry Best Management Practices

The Sicala 340BRF fibre grown commercially over the last three seasons generally produced a fibre with variable quality.

Drip irrigation/fertigation (“advanced fertigation”, “open hydroponics”) is being adopted by

the Australian citrus industry. Hardware sophistication and the complexity of management

The National Program for Sustainable Irrigation provided funds to undertake an 8-week research study on-farm during the 2010-2011 summer.